Card holder



M. MEYERSON CARD HOLDER March 8,1927. 1,619,827 1 Filed May 15, 1925 FORNARUING ADDRESS RIZTURN 4DDEE5$ ON OPPOSITE SIDE- -l lllll Patented Mar. 8, 1927.

UNITED STATES MAX. MEYERSON, OF NEW YORK, .N. 'Y

CARD HOLDER.

Application filed May 15, 1925. Serial No. 30,627.

This invention relates to a card holder such as may be used upon packages, boxes, trunks and the like, and the object of the invention is to provide a holder which may be permanently fixed to the package and which is adapted to carry an address, or like card in such a manner that the card may be inserted and removed at will, and to provide the holder with means to positively retain the card against accidental displacement.

A further object is to provide the body part of the holder so that it constitutes a suitable recess into which the card may he slid into and out of operative position. to provide a card retaining member adapted to move into and out of position obstructing access to the card, and to provide lock means by which to prevent movement of the retaining member except by authorized hands.

Other objects and aims of the invention, more or less specific than those referred to above, will be in part obvious and in part pointed out in the course of the following description of the elements, combinations arrangements of parts and applications of principles, constituting the invention, and the scope of protection contemplated will be indicated in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings which are to be taken as a part of this specification, and in which I have shown merely a preferred form of embodiment of the invention:-

Figure 1 is a plan view of a card holder constructed in accordance with this invention, and

Figure 2 is an enlarged fragmentary elevational view party in transverse section on the plane of line II-Il of Fig. 1.

The present invention is an improvement over what is shown and described in my Patent 1.366.818 January 25th. 1921.

Referring to the drawings for describing in detail the structure which is illustrated therein, the reference character L indicates the main or body portionof the card holder. This comprises upper and lower members 1 and 2 and an end member 3, all connected together and preferably stamped from a single sheet of suitable material such as sheet metal or the like. The end opposite to the member 3 is left open and the inner edge portions of the members 1, 2 and 3 are off-set as at 4, to provide a groove or guideway 5 beneath them.

The card, as G, is intended to be slid into and out of the guide-way 5 through the open end opposite to the member 3.

he body member may be permanently and rigidly connected to the surface of the package, box or other article, as 6, by means of rivets or other fastening means 7.

The card retaining member, as H, is adapted to move into and out of position closmg the open end of the guide-way, and, as an exemplary way of so mounting the re taining member, it is shown to be pivotally connected to the member 1 of the body. For this purpose its upper end is forced under the end portion of the member 1 and is pivgtally connected thereto as by a pivot mem- The lower or free end of the retaining member may be squeezed into and out of position beneath the adjacent end portion of the member 2 of the body.

A look member 9 is provided for holding the free end of the retaining member H against possibility of outward swinging. This lock member may be of any appropriate form except that it is a feature of the present improvement that the .lock member shall be incapable of release except that the operator be first required to obtain access to the interior of the package. In the instance illustrated the lock member consists of a threaded bolt having'its head as 10 exteriorly of the package and having its shank projecting through mating openings 11 and 12 of the body and retaining members and through a further opening 13 of the Wall 14 of the package. and there being a suitable thumb nutas 15 engaging the inner threaded portion of the bolt within the package.

The head 10 is preferably made rectangular and the portion of the body surrounding the opening 11 is provided with a similarly shaped counter-sink 16 to receive the head. In this way it becomes impossible to rotate the bolt from without the package.

The counter-sink 16 is preferably formed by punching in appropriate portions of the sheet metal surrounding the opening 11 so that a corresponding projection .as 17 is formed upon the underside of the sheet metal, and the opening 12 of the retaining member H is made sufliciently large to accommodate this projection. The resil iency of the material from which the body of the card holder is formed, will permit the portion of the body carrying the projection 17 to yield to a suitable extent for enabling the retaining member to be readily swung into and out of retaining position, the projection 17 merclysnapping into the opening 12 when the retaining member is swung to retaining position. This snapacting interengagement of the parts will serve to hold the retaining member temporarily in retaining position whenever desired and will incidentally also hold the retaining member in position with its opening mating the opening of the body so that the lock member 9'may be readily inserted and removed without binding. The retaining member H is preferablyprovided with an oft-set portion 18, corresponding with the oft-set portions 4 of the body, intended to stand in position over the adjacent edge of the card for preventing possibility of removal of the card when the retaining member is in retaining position.

As suggested by the lettering appearing upon the card in Fig. 2, this holder maybe very advantageously used for retaining cards which may be reversed from time to time, that is, with a card bearing a forwarding address on one side and a returning address 011 the other side. The same card may be used to carry the package to its first destination and then reversed to carry the package back to its original holder. Packages of articles to be washed, for instance, may be sent to the laundry, and returned to the owner, with. the least possible contusion.

'VVhen the card has been placed in the holder and the locking member 9 has been applied and its thumb nut 15 attached it will be impossible for any person to open the card holder thereafter without first opening the package. W'ith the package opened the removal of the thumb nut and the mem her 9 may be simply accomplished, and the address card and the lock element-s again returned to sealing position.

Removal of the card by unauthorized persons will thus be eii'ectually prevented.

As many changes could be made in this construction without departing from the scope of the invention as defined in the following claims, it is intended that all matter contained in the above eescription or shown in the accompanying drawings, shall be interpreted as illustrative only and not in a limiting sense.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 7 1. A card holder adapted for attachment to the surface of an article for retaining a card ailixed to said article, said card holder comprising a body member and a retaining member to retain the card within the body member, the body member being substantially of U-shape in general contour and being of a cross section to provide relatively outer marginal portions adapted for attachment to the surface of the article and relatively inner marginal portions disposed to stand away from the underlying surface portions of the article so as to provide a guide-way between themselves and the article to receive marginal portions of the card, the retaining member comprising a strip of material having one of its ends pivotally connected to one leg of the U, the opposite end of said strip of material being adapted to swing into and out of position between the end portion of the other leg of the U and the underlying portion of the surface of the article, and a locking device cooperative between said last mentioned portions of the body member and the retaining member to hold the retaining member against accidental opening movement out of retaining position, said locking device comprising a bolt extending through mating apertures of said last mentioned portions of the body member andretaining member and through said article and having aremovable nut beyond the article.

2. The combination with a package, of a card holder therefor made up of opposite side and end members one of said members being pivotally connected to swing into and out of position closing the space between the other members, and a lock for said pivoted member extending therethrough and interiorly of the package and being releasable only upon access to the interior of the package.

3. The combination with a package, of a card holder therefor having a movable retaining member for the card, said card holder and retaining member having mating apertures therethrough and there being an alined aperture through the wall of the package, a locking bolt extending through said apertures, and a removable retaining element engaging said bolt interiorly ot the package.

4. The combination with a'package. of a card holder therefor having a'movable retaining member for the card, said card holder and retaining member having mating apertures therethrough and there being an alined aperture through the wall of the package, a locking bolt extending through said apertures, having a rectangular head thereon received in a rectangular countersink of one of said members, and a nut removably threaded onto said bolt interiorly of the package.

In testimony whereof I ailix my signature. v

MAX MEYERSON. 

